Publications

Beating the Odds: Remarkable Women in In Science

Career Basics: Advise and Resources for Scientists from Science Careers

Career Trends: Careers Away from the Bench

Consumer Health Information Services in Public Libraries

From Cause to Care: Commemorating 25 Years of HIV/AIDS Research

GE Foundation Report - A System of Solutions: Every School, Every Student (Summary)

Having a Healthy Birth

This booklet, developed in cooperation with the Heinz Endowments, offers parents-to-be basic information about giving birth, including the signs and stages of labor, pain relief, breastfeeding, and the baby blues.

Having a Healthy Pregnancy

This booklet, developed in cooperation with the Heinz Endowments, offers parents-to-be basic information to help women have a healthy pregnancy, including the changes to expect during each trimester, prenatal doctor visits, and eating for two.

Having Healthy Babies

This booklet, developed in cooperation with the Heinz Endowments, offers parents-to-be basic information about their newborn, including feeding, health and safety, doctor's visits, and learning and development.

In Pursuit of a Diverse Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce

Inquiring into Inquiry Learning and Teaching in Science

Invention and Impact: Building Excellence in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education

Linking Science and Technology to Women's Needs

New Career Paths for Students with Disabilities

Preparing Women and Minorities for the IT Workforce: The Role of Nontraditional Educational Pathways

Science Education Reform for All: Sustaining the Science, Mathematics and Technology Reform

The Science Inside: Alcohol

The Science Inside: Asthma and Allergies

This booklet explains what asthma and allergies are, how they are related, who suffers most from them, how they are prevented, and how they are treated. It also discusses the current research being conducted on these conditions, as well as the important role volunteers play in clinical trials.

The Science Inside: Diabetes

This booklet summarizes what health professionals know about type 2 diabetes — what it is, who is at risk for it, how it can be prevented, and how it is treated. It describes how researchers study the disease and what individuals can do to help reduce the rising number of diabetes cases now affecting millions of children and adults around the country.

The Science Inside: Having Healthy Babies

This booklet summarizes what health professionals know about healthy babies and mothers. It shows women how to avoid or reduce the health risks of pregnancy, provides information about the development of healthy infants and toddlers, and outlines the steps of pregnancy from conception to labor and delivery to postnatal care. Having Healthy Babies directs readers to more sources of information and to the latest scientific research.

The Science Inside: High Blood Pressure

This booklet explains what health professionals know about high blood pressure or hypertension, one of the leading causes of heart disease and stroke. It shows how to prevent high blood pressure, as well as how to care for yourself if you have been diagnosed with the disease.

The Science Inside: HIV and AIDS

This booklet helps to explain what doctors and scientists know about the HIV and AIDS epidemic. It summarizes what HIV and AIDS are and what happens when HIV becomes AIDS, including the health problems that can result. The e-book explains how the diseases are spread, what groups suffer most from them, how they may be prevented, how they are treated, and what the latest research reveals.

The Science Inside: Learning

The Science Inside: Obesity

The obesity booklet discusses the importance of good health habits such as eating right and exercising. It talks about how the body takes in energy and what it does with excess energy it doesn't use up. Other topics that are covered include the health problems obesity contributes to, as well as how to prevent and treat obesity.

The Science Inside: Skin

The Science Inside Skin, created with funding from Neutrogena, offers readers a closer peek at the body's surface. Inside they'll find information about the three layers of skin, how skin changes during a lifetime, various skin ailments (ranging from acne to the three types of skin cancer), and sun safety.

The Science Inside: Your Health

This booklet on biomedical research talks about how far health and scientific research has come in the last 150 years, making diseases like malaria and measles much less threatening than they once were. It discusses the role science-based research has played in combatting disease and the challenges society faces in continuing that fight. It also goes into detail about clinical trials and the role volunteers play in them.

Young Women in Science: Forging New Pathways

Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research